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The scary thing? These are all relevant to my work. Except maybe the Naomi Wolf. ( history of obscenity law, scientific revolutions, presentation of self, misquoting Jesus, sexual awakenings, consumer awakenings, intellectual propertyCollapse )

My version of nesting: trying to clear the backlog.

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News and views:

First up, I am not going to be a reluctant New Yorker much longer. Z. got a tenure-track job near DC, so we are going home. We may have to live in Virginia (The horror! The horror! And believe you me, Heart of Darkness references are not much misplaced with respect to certain aspects of Virginia.), but we'll be in the greater DC area. I will greatly miss my colleagues and the wonderful fans of NY, people like cesperanza, astolat, geekturnedvamp, and many, many others. Also, I'll miss my 24-hour gym and the St. Agnes book sale. But I won't miss the crowds or the noise.

( I celebrate by drawing down on my to-review pile; what, you didn't know I was a geek? Nonfiction, sf and mysteryCollapse )

Coming soon: review essay on becoming a pornographer.

I ate way too much this weekend. But, I also read some books.
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First, the archived version of Five Things That Never Happened to Lex Luthor, now with one less spelling error. Then, a few books, three autobiographical and one definitely not.

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